Remember the Alamo?

American History in Bite-Sized Chunks

Alison Rattle, Allison Vale

• Publisher: Michael O'Mara
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9781782435105
• eBook ISBN: 9781843178606
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Early American History
• Index: History

For most people the details of the American Revolution, the history of Thanksgiving and the Battle of the Alamo are sketchy at best. However, help is at hand as Remember the Alamo? contains all the American history you learnt at school and promptly forgot, and perhaps some things that you were never taught in the first place. Broken down into easily digested bite-sized chunks, this book will teach you the basics of over 150 key events from Columbus to Nixon and from cowboys to cosmonauts. Remember the Alamo? assumes no other knowledge of world history and doesn't contain anything but the most salient points so that anyone can become clued up on the history of one of the world's most developed nations. Concise and informative, yet entertaining and engagingly written, Remember the Alamo? contains everything you will ever need to know about the United States.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Timeline
• List of Presidents of the United States
• Colonial America
• Columbus and Other Discoverers of America
• The Conquistadors and the Rising Creole Population
• The English Quest for Colonies and a Northwest Passage
• Jamestown: The First English Settlement in America
• Puritans and Pilgrims
• The Mayflower and Plymouth Rock
• Slavery and the First Plantations
• The Rush for Religious Freedom
• The Salem Witch Trials
• French America
• New Netherland: Dutch America
• The Indian Wars of the Seventeenth Century
• The French and Indian War
• Revolutionary America
• King George’s Proclamation Line
• The Tyranny of Taxation
• The Sons of Liberty
• The Boston Massacre
• The Boston Tea Party
• The Intolerable Acts
• The First Continental Congress
• The Battle of Concord
• The Battle of Bunker Hill
• The Declaration of Independence
• Early Successes and Failures
• Trenton, Saratoga, and Philadelphia
• The Articles of Confederation
• Last Years and Victory at Yorktown
• The Birth of the United States
• Betsy Ross and the First Stars and Stripes Flag
• The United States Constitution
• The Bill of Rights
• Benjamin Franklin and the Founding Fathers
• George Washington
• John Adams
• Federalists v. Republicans: The Presidential Campaign of 1800
• Thomas Jefferson
• Marbury v. Madison and the Power of the Supreme Court
• American Expansion and Reform
• The Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• The “War of 1812”
• The National Anthem
• The Mountain Men
• The Missouri Compromise
• The Monroe Doctrine
• Andrew Jackson
• The Nullification Crisis
• The Whigs
• Remember the Alamo!
• At War with Mexico
• The Battles of Monterrey and Veracruz
• “Manifest Destiny”
• Westward Ho!
• Strike It Lucky: The Gold Rush of ’49
• The Cotton Gin and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Abraham Lincoln
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act
• The Abolitionist Movement
• Frederick Douglass
• The Underground Railroad
• The Dred Scott Decision
• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• The Presidential Election of 1860
• The Civil War
• Confederate States and Southern Secession
• General Robert E. Lee
• The First Battle of Bull Run
• Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Sherman
• The Battle of Shiloh
• The Battle of Antietam
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• The Battle of Gettysburg
• The Gettysburg Address
• Sherman’s March to the Sea
• Surrender at Appomattox
• The Assassination of Lincoln
• Reconstruction And Industrialization
• The Homestead Act
• Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction
• The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• The Gilded Age
• The Age of Invention
• Industrialization and the Rise of the Industrial Tycoon
• Andrew Carnegie and John Pierpoint Morgan, Sr.
• Transcontinental Railroads and the Robber Barons
• Custer’s Last Stand
• Taming the Wild West
• Immigration and the Making of Modern America
• The Rise of the Unions
• The Sherman Antitrust Act
• “Remember the Maine!” The Spanish-American War
• Black America: “Separate but Equal”
• Susan B. Anthony
• The Struggle for Equality
• Theodore Roosevelt
• The Muckrakers
• Woodrow Wilson
• The Sixteenth Amendment: Income Tax
• The Panama Canal
• World War One and the Roaring Twenties
• America the Peace Broker
• The Lusitania and America’s Declaration of War
• Making the World Safe
• The Impact of War at Home
• Wilson’s Fourteen Points
• The League of Nations and a Return to Isolationism
• The Roaring Twenties: “The Age of Wonderful Nonsense”
• Prohibition and the Rise of the Mob
• The Great Depression and World War Two
• The Wall Street Crash
• The Great Depression
• Herbert C. Hoover
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• The New Deal
• American Isolation and the Threat of War
• The Outbreak of World War Two
• Pearl Harbor
• The Darkest Weeks
• Bataan and the Death March
• The Battle of Midway
• The War at Home
• The Allied Invasions of North Africa and Italy
• D-Day
• The Battle of the Bulge
• VE Day
• Guadalcanal and South Pacific Island-Hopping
• The Battle of Leyte Gulf
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• War Crimes and the Creation of the State of Israel
• Post-War America
• The United Nations
• Harry S. Truman
• The “Superpowers”
• The Iron Curtain
• The Marshall Plan
• The Berlin Airlift
• The McCarthy Witch-Hunts
• The Korean War: The Seeds are Sown
• The Invasion of South Korea
• The Korean War: Stalemate
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• The Civil Rights Movement: The Origins
• The Civil Rights Movement: Brown v. Board of Education
• The Civil Rights Movement: Rosa Parks
• Martin Luther King
• The Election of John F. Kennedy
• The Bay of Pigs Invasion
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• The Assassination of JFK
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• The Great Society and the Civil Rights Act
• Malcolm X and the Rise of Black Power
• The Vietnam War Years
• The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• The Vietnam War
• Counterculture, Controversy, and a Giant Leap for Mankind
• Richard Nixon
• Cambodia
• Watergate and Nixon’s Resignation
• Index